On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:03:06PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > reassign 282236 yaboot > Bug#282236: pearpc: shift key does not work > Bug reassigned from package `pearpc' to `yaboot'.
> shift and other modifier keys do not work under pearpc. So it is not > possible without modifying code to enter yaboot parameters for example > (hd:3,/boot/vmlinux - cannot enter <:>). This is not a yaboot problem, text entry is handled by the OpenFirmware console, so it will work as well or as badly as your OpenFirmware terminal does. I can indeed use shift and input characters such as < > and : along with everything else on my keyboard. You probably are using a non-apple keyboard on your machine which is known to not work very well with Apple OpenFirmware. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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